AJMC September 4, 2020
Jiunn Lim

At the heart of a defensive strategy against ransomware and other cybersecurity risks is a cloud-based approach to protecting data.

While businesses are adjusting to the day-to-day challenges of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), cybersecurity continues to be an ever-present threat. Risks in health care and managed care settings are especially profound—according to a recent report from IBM Security, healthcare companies incurred the highest average breach costs of all industries at $7.13 million—a more than 10% increase compared to the 2019 study and nearly twice the average industry cost.

This is not just a theoretical risk. Just last month, hackers attacked and encrypted data needed by the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine with malware,...

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Topics: Cloud, Cybersecurity, Health IT, Insurance, Payer, Technology
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